Continued conducting IT security compliance reviews at each major site worldwide, including National Semiconductor's former manufacturing facilities, acquired in late 2011.

Installed new technology and solutions that further protect our information technology and intellectual property, and that monitor and report the movement of confidential information.

Improved business-continuity program elements and capabilities, and aligned planning and management activities with former National Semiconductor sites.

Continued strengthening our security standards and protocols by developing precious metals security standards and a physical access control standard. These provide consistent, efficient and auditable controls at all TI sites to secure assets.

Effectively managed employees' use of smartphones/devices by establishing restrictions and requirements to protect intellectual property and privacy.

Established a Central Privacy Committee that will oversee the personal data of our employees, customers and business partners.

Natural disasters

While TI experienced a few weather-related events in 2012, none greatly impacted its operations.

Crisis communications

To ensure preparedness, we:

Updated our crisis manual to include key public information officials with fire and police departments in major cities where we operate.

Held emergency response/crisis communications training at former National Semiconductor sites in Scotland, Malaysia and California to train employees on our crisis manual, policies and communications approach.

Successfully deployed a communications plan in advance of Typhoon Saola in Taiwan.

Looking ahead

In 2013, TI plans to continue refining and improving its business-continuity program to aggressively manage potential impacts to its business and customers. We will do this in part by:

Focusing business-continuity planning readiness in high-growth locations, such as India and China.

Training our workforce on security expectations and policies.

Installing new technology and solutions to further protect information technology and intellectual property. We also will strengthen software security controls and restrict access to the internal network based on user roles.

Staffing emergency response teams at former National Semiconductor sites. We also plan to expand the capabilities of our worldwide emergency communications system.